AORN J. 2006 May;83(5):1115-8, 1121-2.

Evolution of wrong site surgery prevention strategies.

Source

Parkwest Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA.

Abstract

Although wrong site surgeries are rare, these incidents have received a great deal of media attention in recent years, prompting health care organizations and associations to search for ways to eliminate this problem. This article examines the quest for ways to prevent wrong site surgeries and considers the contributions of organizations such as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and AORN toward eliminating wrong site surgeries.

PMID:: 16722287; [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

MeSH Terms

LinkOut - more resources

Full Text Sources

Supplemental Content

Save items

Related citations in PubMed

Review Achieving the National Quality Forum's "Never Events": prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient operations. [Ann Surg. 2007]
Review Achieving the National Quality Forum's "Never Events": prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient operations.
Michaels RK, Makary MA, Dahab Y, Frassica FJ, Heitmiller E, Rowen LC, Crotreau R, Brem H, Pronovost PJ. Ann Surg. 2007 Apr; 245(4):526-32.
Industry endorses Joint Commission protocol to prevent wrong site surgeries. [Rep Med Guidel Outcomes Res. 2...]
Industry endorses Joint Commission protocol to prevent wrong site surgeries.
Rollins G. Rep Med Guidel Outcomes Res. 2004 Jan 9; 15(1):10-2.
Review Ensuring correct site surgery. [AORN J. 2002]
Review Ensuring correct site surgery.
Scheidt RC. AORN J. 2002 Nov; 76(5):770-7; quiz 779-82.
Quality professionals must take lead to eliminate wrong-site surgery. [Hosp Peer Rev. 2002]
Quality professionals must take lead to eliminate wrong-site surgery.
. Hosp Peer Rev. 2002 Feb; 27(2):17-20.
SurgiChip--new technology for prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgery. [J Perianesth Nurs. 2005]
SurgiChip--new technology for prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgery.
Sandlin D. J Perianesth Nurs. 2005 Apr; 20(2):144-6.

See reviews... See all...

Cited by 2 PubMed Central articles

Preventing surgical confusions in ophthalmology (an American Ophthalmological Society thesis). [Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc. 2007]
Preventing surgical confusions in ophthalmology (an American Ophthalmological Society thesis).
Simon JW. Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc. 2007; 105:513-29.
Getting surgery right. [Ann Surg. 2007]
Getting surgery right.
Clarke JR, Johnston J, Finley ED. Ann Surg. 2007 Sep; 246(3):395-403, discussion 403-5.

Related information

Related Citations
Calculated set of PubMed citations closely related to the selected article(s) retrieved using a word weight algorithm. Related articles are displayed in ranked order from most to least relevant, with the “linked from” citation displayed first.
Cited in PMC
Full-text articles in the PubMed Central Database that cite the current articles.

Recent activity

Clear Turn Off Turn On

Evolution of wrong site surgery prevention strategies.
Evolution of wrong site surgery prevention strategies.
AORN J. 2006 May ;83(5):1115-8, 1121-2.

PubMed
State of energy consumption and CO2 emission in Bangladesh.
State of energy consumption and CO2 emission in Bangladesh.
Ambio. 2006 Mar ;35(2):86-8.

PubMed
Exploiting application locality to design low-complexity, highly performing, and...
Exploiting application locality to design low-complexity, highly performing, and power-aware embedded classifiers.
IEEE Trans Neural Netw. 2006 May ;17(3):745-54.

PubMed
Contraceptive effects of extended lactational amenorrhoea: beyond the Bellagio C...
Contraceptive effects of extended lactational amenorrhoea: beyond the Bellagio Consensus.
Lancet. 1991 Mar 23 ;337(8743):715-7.

PubMed
CMV DNA detection in dried blood spots for diagnosing congenital CMV infection i...
CMV DNA detection in dried blood spots for diagnosing congenital CMV infection in Japan.
J Med Virol. 2006 Jul ;78(7):923-5.

PubMed

Your browsing activity is empty.

Activity recording is turned off.

Turn recording back on

PubMed

Result Filters

Display Settings:

Send to:

Evolution of wrong site surgery prevention strategies.

Source

Abstract

MeSH Terms

MeSH Terms

LinkOut - more resources

Full Text Sources

Supplemental Content

Save items

Related citations in PubMed

Cited by 2 PubMed Central articles

Related information

Recent activity

Simple NCBI Directory

Getting Started

Resources

Popular

Featured

NCBI Information